More gushings on the family

It's been awhile since my last post but have been feeling lots of pain these past few weeks and it makes it hard to type when I go through these spouts. I have posted a few new pictures than I am so proud of. Jessi and my Dad for starters is one of my favorite pictures, I love my Dad so much and of course Jess loves her Grandpa, and they both look so awesome in this picture how could I NOT have shared this with everyone? I could go on and on about my Dad, there are so many things to tell about him. He is an amazing father and the most perfect example of what a father and husband is to anyone looking for one. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father has blessed me with such a wonderful set of parents. Jessica, is another person that I admire and love, and she's my daughter! She just moved out in to her very own first place and is quite excited and I am excited and happy for her! It's a quaint and cute little victorian studio size apartment in Vallejo. Although I am not happy about the location, I am trying to understand her reasons for choosing it and will support her efforts in every way that I can. That's what us Mom's do right? I hope to post some pictures of her new digs soon. They tell me I won't be able to see it because there are many stairs and I can no longer do stairs of any kind, but I'm a Mom first and foremost so I am sure I will succeed in getting up those stairs to see my little girl's first home on her own! You watch me! HAH! Jamie and Jared are still with me and I am grateful for the opportunity to have them here with me and watch Jared grow right under my nose! She is starting a grueling nursing school schedule and will need me as much as I need her these next few months. I am SO proud of her. And if you look at the new picture I posted of her and Jared, I don't have to tell you what a great Mom she is becoming with every new day. She is a great daughter, a great mother and a great student. She wears many hats now and fulfills many roles along with her new church calling and I am so proud of her and the grown up woman she is working so hard to become. There are a few new ones (pictures) I've posted of my little guy Jared, and no need to explain them because you will see for yourself how gorgeous he is and who adorable and funny he can be. The first footprint at the beach I am enlarging and framing for our living room. IT is too beautiful for words but I hope to find some piece of poetry to put underneath it. My health has held mostly steady this past month and I am still working part time and taking my pills and stretching and holding my own thus far. We have applied at disability for Jamie to get paid for being my live in care taker and that will give us a bit more money every month to get by on. We have also applied at Hamilton Homes over in Novato, which is about 5 miles from us here in Mill Valley, but it's a new low income complex that is new and fresh and beautiful. We are waiting for a three bedroom. This place is really nice and has it's own pool and hot tubs and a party room club house with a work out facility and even day care right there on the premises! They are only about a year old and still new and nice. Our apartment even has central heat and air conditioning! We are lookign forward to being able to put a little pool and sandbox out on the patio for Jared and even a little patio set to enjoy the hot summer nights. I may even go all out and get a little bar b quer for us! COME FOR DINNER! I'm Quing! The downside to all of this will be moving to a new ward. We have grown to love our ward and feel as though they are family and they are! We'll miss the missionaries that we have grown so attached to and feed on a regular basis HAH! I love the Gospel and our church so much and the people in it are amazing and warm and caring. I'm sure our new ward will be just the same and we intend to keep in touch with the old ward also. We just need to grow into a bigger place to live for all our sakes and a new ward will have to be part of that growth. Jared needs his own room now and Jamie and I both need a place to go and be on our own and have some private time and peace. We are having a ball planning out our rooms, especially Jared's. Jamie is going all pink of course and I am hoping for a reading corner and nice desk and bookshelves. My church books and magazines are taking over my room. I am proud and happy to say that I have read each and every book and magazine in it! I look forward to a trip to the bookstore to get more! Jared is going to be so spoiled and we can't wait to give him his first room with all the bells and whistles. He is getting his very own twin bed with a rail on the side and we hope to go to Home Depot and get one of those big rugs that have a city on it to play his cars on. That will go right in the middle of his room. He will have a table and chairs and toy boxes and a bookshelf for all his books and puzzles. A t.v. and dvd player too. None of it will be new of course all mostly second hand but it will still be nice for him. I have to say thanks again to Deanna for being such an awesome sister and for loving us all in spite of ourselves :0) she means so much to all of us here at the Hudgins hoedown. We love you Deanna and I love you and thank you for starting this blog up and for all of your help with it. YOU ARE AWESOME! I'll post again soon, and keep all who are interested in us up to par on our move and any new comings and goings we may have in the future. Our future seems to be bright and better for us all. It's Heavenly Father's work for sure, to make our lives better. It already is since He's in it, I am so blessed to have so many awesome sisters and a loving brother and a great set of parents. I could not ask for anything more. My family means the world to me. Until then, Jess Jamers and Jared and I say God Bless and talk to you all soon!

They say there is nothing better than being a grandmother for the first time and they are right! Jared is two years old now and I have found that the last two years have been absolutely amazing and without him I don't think I could have made it through with everything else going on in my life healthwise that is.
What an amazing baby he is and of course I say this with partiality :0) He is so full of love and pure innocent pleasure at the world around him that I find myself looking at the world through his eyes and liking it so much more! My blog will most definitely be for the most part about baby Jared the great!
And my family, I can't forget my family and friends because they are what I'm all about, my life, my loves, my passions, are all centered around them. I cannot forget my faith, church, and Heavenly Father who has blessed me with such great people in my life including the ever wonderful Jared.
As I post pictures in the future, you will not be suprised that they are of Jared, my daughters, my family, my friends. I'm a very ordinary person with some very extraordinary people in my life to make it the wonderful life that is.
I am blessed with two very kind, wise and loving parents who must be because their children are uprooting their lives and homes to move two states over to Idaho to be near them. My parents have retired, sold their home in Concord, CA and moved to their dream home and area of a little town just outside of Boise Idaho called Middleton. It's a beautiful home and everything that they are; warm, cozy, comfortable, safe and totally heavenly, the spirit is alive and well living in the new Flud household.
I have four awesome sisters, Marianne, Caryn, Kristen, Deanna, and a totally awesome brother, Johnny, who has a marvelous wife that I consider a sister alos, Kely. I am sure I will have stories of them in the future also. My nieces and nephews are great kids and I love them all. All in all, I think we make up an extremely loving and devoted family that I'm so proud of. We have grown up to love each other and support each other and we are very close which is a credit to my parents and our faith.
Which brings me to my girls, Jessica and Jamie and of course to baby Jared. I have recently gone back to church and am working on being more active and with Jamie's baptism, I have become even stronger in my conviction that the church is TRUE and we are both working on our temple endowments and hope to get Jessi involved and baptized some day too :0) My family will then be complete and I will rest easy knowing that we will be a family for eternity! What other way is there to go?
My blog will be about my growth in the church and my growth as a mother and grandmother, sister, aunt, daughter. I have many roles, and each and every role is important to me because it's important to my family.
This is who I am, this is me. Ordinary, but true, simple, yet complex as so many families are. Enjoy and I'm always open for new ideas and suggestions and tips. Life is a learning curve, so help me learn!